Re: Install debian on EFI hw

[ha <hiei.arhiva@gmail.com>]

On 03/04/14 20:09, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 04/03/2014 14:54, ha a écrit :
> > Last few weekends I've tried to install debian 7.2 from live DVD (but
> > booting from USB) on EFI hardware with GPT. I disabled EFI, crated a
> > small partition at the begging of the disk, and run the usual
> > installation process. However, at the end of installation I always
> > receive the message like: "Grub-pc package failed to install into
> > /target/".
> >
> > Now, I solved this by booting to rescue mode, doing grub-install, chroot
> > into the instaled system and simply update grub. However, I found this
> > solution suboptimal when compared to classical debian installation
> > (utilizing MBR). So I wonder if anybody had experience on how to avoid
> > this recue-grub_install-chroot-grub_update procedure?
> >
> > Did anybody manage to automatically install debian on GPT?
> > Did anybody do it without disabling EFI (grub-efi perhaps)?
> > Or the only way to have the automated install is stick with MBR?
> >
> > Thanks to anybody who cares.
>
> I installed with GPT and EFI, but I do not remember if I used a testing
> or a stable image. It worked without problem, except I had to create a
> EFI partition /boot/efi
>
Did I understood this correctly: I have to have a small GPT partition at 
the beginning, and right after it one additional that will be mounted as 
/boot/efi? If so, I'm confused. How the debian installer will know it 
should mount which partition as /boot/efi?